Jesus Christ. Dobby has a unique gift to turn any nice gesture or peptalk into an insult that'll he fixate on and cry over for hours. Her family invites him over so he wouldn't be sitting home alone on the holidays, and he gets pissy because they didn't change their beliefs and customs to suit him. His girlfriend tries to talk to him about his art, and he drops it and sulks for two hours.
With Dobson, every little bit of patience, goodwill and niceness is sucked up and vanishes into a black whole.
I mean, that was his girlfriend he was reacting to. Does he give her the benefit of the doubt? Does he stop his train of thought before it runs headlong into a brick wall of petulance and dickery? Does he reevaluate her words to see if what she meant was what he understood?
No.
He's instantly switching into douchenozzle mode.
What chance does some random, good meaning person on dA have, trying to politely suggest Dobson might rethink the way he colors stuff? If his reaction is this adverse to a person he
loves, what can you expect a stranger to achieve?
She probably thought he'd shed his grumpy exterior if given some love and compassion and finally shine as a person. Instead he liked being a shut-in, couldn't be assed to get to know her family, and pitched fits when things couldn't be done "his" way.
Niceness only feeds into his shitty behaviour, it seems. Rather then eventually softening up about his shitty attitude, allowing him to behave like that makes him double down on it.
I guess even when she dumped his sorry ass, at no point did he truly think that he might have done some mistakes.
IIRC there was a picture that surfaced a while ago that showed him hanging out with her, so it's possible that if they're still either dating or just friends.
It's also possible that they were from years ago, I'm not entirely sure.
It's hard to tell, but I assume they are more recent. But then again, do we know that's really Dobson? or that particular ex gf?
I mean, the women doesn't look much like what Dobby drew (which says nothing, really, seeing how off-modell he is even with basic designs), but the "Dobson" in that photo could be any balding, fat, blue shirted neckbeard, tbh.